Area recyclers are celebrating Earth Day with a comprehensive electronics recycling event that will provide an opportunity for the safe and environmentally friendly disposal and recycling of consumer electronics, hand-held devices, kitchen and beauty appliances, tools and more.

The recycling event will be held on Saturday, April 21 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the John Paul Jones Arena, located at 295 Massie Road.

Drop-offs are free, but there is a $5 charge for each television and monitor because of the cost it takes to recycle this equipment properly.

All equipment is destroyed and recycled in an environmentally sound manner by a fully permitted recycling facility. Equipment is manually and mechanically
disassembled; shredded into small pieces of metals, plastics, and glass; and separated into reusable commodity streams used to manufacture new materials. All storage devices are completely destroyed by mechanical shredding. No equipment is reused in any manner.